Shitty Sales Week?

[Ramster]

I was just looking at my Stats Remote sales and for this week they SUCK! Wow, what a drop in sales from the previous week. Actual sales themselves are not much lower but the rebills are and the sales I made are lower in dollar, trials, etc I suppose as apposed to monthly sales. Translates, according to Stats Remote to 1/3 the money of last week.

[Cleo]

Same for me, my sales were up but rebills were way done. You would think that there was a recession and people were broke or something.

[wizznetworks]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Same for me, my sales were up but rebills were way done. You would think that there was a recession and people were broke or something.

recession ... You called this situation certainly right

Regards,
Daniel
WizzSolutions.com

[Simon]

What I'm seeing this month is about the same number of signups but a big drop in dollars per sale. One of my favorite sponsors offers an option to either signup for a monthly rebilling membership or just pay to see the specific episode the surfer wants to see. This month and last month I see a lot more opting to pay per view at less money. Which sucks since I used to generate 3-month, 6-month and 1-year signups earlier this year from identical traffic.

Besides blaming Facebook (of course), I think the combination of the non-stop coverage of the oil volcano in the Gulf of Mexico together with the lack of noticeable improvement in the economy (for most people) has a lot of surfers who aren't looking for free porn cutting back on their spending. They see the people of the states bordering the Gulf having their lives destroyed and no way near enough being done to make them whole and their subconscious starts whispering "you could be next."

:|

[Mike-mijen]

Originally Posted by Simon

What I'm seeing this month is about the same number of signups but a big drop in dollars per sale. One of my favorite sponsors offers an option to either signup for a monthly rebilling membership or just pay to see the specific episode the surfer wants to see. This month and last month I see a lot more opting to pay per view at less money. Which sucks since I used to generate 3-month, 6-month and 1-year signups earlier this year from identical traffic.

Besides blaming Facebook (of course), I think the combination of the non-stop coverage of the oil volcano in the Gulf of Mexico together with the lack of noticeable improvement in the economy (for most people) has a lot of surfers who aren't looking for free porn cutting back on their spending. They see the people of the states bordering the Gulf having their lives destroyed and no way near enough being done to make them whole and their subconscious starts whispering "you could be next."

:|

Yep, What he said

[HowlingWulf]

I thought the last couple of weeks were bad too.

[JustRobert]

Sales are down and rebills are down even further the past couple of weeks.

[babymaker]

It's been real bad for 2 years but the last couple of month wiped me out, add to the fact that google fucked us raw, every search result including longtails goes to a full length tube or porn forum, no one buys porn now

[ecchi]

Four years ago some marketing company did a survey. Internet sales dropped by about a third during the World Cup. I know it is not so popular in America, but your customers come from all over the world and most of the world is glued to the football, so are not surfing.

[geirlur]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Four years ago some marketing company did a survey. Internet sales dropped by about a third during the World Cup. I know it is not so popular in America, but your customers come from all over the world and most of the world is glued to the football, so are not surfing.

This might have a lot to with it.. me myself watch 2-3 games every day

[Trixie]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Four years ago some marketing company did a survey. Internet sales dropped by about a third during the World Cup. I know it is not so popular in America, but your customers come from all over the world and most of the world is glued to the football, so are not surfing.

Yeah, my twitter stream was filled with people totally obsessed with it this year, even people in the states. There's got to be a connection, for sure (along with the other general mood and state of the economy already mentioned).

[Fonz]

Good (well, not that good) to see that I'm not alone

[LD]

One this is up for me...chargebacks

[bDok]

It's been pretty brutal as of late. I'm just putting my head down and building building building. Sucks when it takes awhile for a new idea to actually gain some ground.

[terry]

Same here. Less rebills and more trial sales compared to the previous weeks.

[Senator_x]

My rebills are strong for solo models but not so strong for mega sites like Brazzers, BangBros, Naughty America....

The mega affiliate programs that used to keep a member for about 6 months has dropped to about 2 months.

I still have rebills on CCBill solo sites that have re-billed for years.

Dating sites rebills are still strong.

Dating PPS is weak because the PPS comes after the trial.

My webcam sales have dropped but the slack has been picked up by my whales.
The whales are spending as if it were still 1999.

Anyway, just ride out the storm. These are times when you should toughen up, learn new shit, renegotiate shit with your web host and evolve.

[plateman]

bad week - bad year or so imo things wont get better till all the honest webmasters boycott brazzers and anyone else who done what they did

things are so bad in adult that if everybody would band together and quit doing biz with anyone who is in bed with the cut throats things may get better

but it wont cause most webmasters are two faced back stabbing assholes

wait till oct and onward most will be out of biz, and the programs who are still left half will turn off sales and pretend they are working right

I bet google has lost a lot of money with there adwords in adult
who's gonna buy ads when the serps are filled with long enough movies from the niche tube sites

also I bet there is 1000s of adult webmasters thinking or working on getting into mainstream to be able to survive and stay a webmaster and the chances of making a good buck is gonna be hard cause of the comp thats already in it....unless us porn slingers go into mainstream as a group

if you think the mainstream webmasters are gonna welcome us in and start trading links to help you build a mainstream empire your nuts

also I was in a private group and we talked and used your heads together to try and make more money, we bought domains and used every trick in the book to stay ahead of the average webmaster

and a half dozen times I tryed to get another group going and nobody wants to go back to the drawing board

the days of sitting a few hours a day and making 25hun a month are gone

my LL is stable in the serps and ranks decent in the serps right up along with the latest and greatest, and why????? because I never gave up on it like a 1000 other LL owners

lets go back to the tubes and IMO the illegal tubes is 70% the problem with why ratios are so bad, it takes a small army or coup to overthrow a corrupt goverment - right? WE ALL need to get working to get the wrong people out of adult or there wont be nothing left to save

they have all the traffic and stole the content and you still have people in this thread sending them traffic

like that time sic cash ripped me off called me a cheat and others got the same and only a small handfull of people pulled links

and thats why you have what you have today, because people just dont give a fuck if it dont affect them or there to fuckin lazy todo anything about it

[Useless]

Originally Posted by plateman

but it wont cause most webmasters are two faced back stabbing assholes

and a half dozen times I tryed to get another group going and nobody wants to go back to the drawing board

No one wants to work with you because you're a fucking lunatic.

[plateman]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

No one wants to work with you because you're a fucking lunatic.

That gave me a good laugh, yeah maybe I have lost touch with reality

maybe I need a real touch to get it back

[plateman]

Originally Posted by plateman

That gave me a good laugh, yeah maybe I have lost touch with reality

maybe I need a real touch to get it back

those remarks does not apply to the members of this board

some of the nicest and best in the adult biz is a member here

[nekrom]

Google doesn't give a shit about adult webmasters not spending with them anymore. I've a few webmaster mates that were spending $200k+ in ad buys per year, had their own rep, presents at Christmas/Birthdays, etc.

They all pulled their ad buys when the traffic quality started dropping (the last few years) and their Google reps didn't give 2 shits.

-N

[babymaker]

Originally Posted by nekrom

Google doesn't give a shit about adult webmasters not spending with them anymore. I've a few webmaster mates that were spending $200k+ in ad buys per year, had their own rep, presents at Christmas/Birthdays, etc.

They all pulled their ad buys when the traffic quality started dropping (the last few years) and their Google reps didn't give 2 shits.

-N

wow a lot of ad buys, I hate ad words I tried it a few times years ago when traffi was good and didnt do well, then tried recently, and I used a landing page and keywords i knew converted great of HQ traffic and didnt get anything, except them billing me for $20 extra after I paused the campaign lol.

[thewiz]

I'd have to say a real shitty sales year! From what you see in the news these days its getting a lot worse before it gets better!

I believe the adult webmaster is going to have to look at changing they way they work if they are going to stay in the biz! I don't think the free porn sites are going to stay around to much longer!

The webmasters are going to have to start making the surfers want to see more by giving them less up front, just give them a little peek then send them to buy the rest!

[Fonz]

Originally Posted by thewiz

The webmasters are going to have to start making the surfers want to see more by giving them less up front, just give them a little peek then send them to buy the rest!

And then came the tube sites.

The thought of giving the surfer less for free is great but it seems everybody is giving more and more away for free just to attract more surfers...

[babymaker]

I am gonna open a HD 3D tube next week And sell the glasses